Secondly. The reader may take notice, that in some other
discourses of mine now In the course of the same year in which this reply to
Sherlock appeared, Owen’s “Discourse on the Holy Spirit,” and the second volume of
his “Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews” were published.
There is much in both of them on the points at issue between Owen and Sherlock. — Ed. published, which were
all of them finished before I had the advantage to peruse the friendly and
judicious animadversions of this author, he will find most of the matters
which he excepts against both cleared, proved, and vindicated,
and that those principles which he directs his opposition against are so
established, as that I neither expect nor fear any such assault upon them,
from this sort of men, as becometh a serious debate on things of this
nature.